portentous

/pɔːtˈɛntəs/

/pɔɹˈtɛntəs/

portentous

warning or indicating that something significant, particularly unpleasant, is going to take place

synonyms : prodigious

puffed up with vanity

Examples

1. We shouldn’t, on top of everything else, accord our illness too much portentous respect.

2. He offers them these portentous sayings, like this last little epigram about the tavern and the road thereto, and he uses this archaic language.

3. Can he really answer the portentous, cosmic aura that he invokes over and over again in the very style of this novel?

4. She's already had two children with portentous names and now she's pregnant with a third.